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Likeshotsauce

basically I planted some ghost peppers next to tomatillo plants and yeah, I need to remove some tomatillo plants because they're "peppering" my garden completely :o Please help me, give me tips on what to look for? I've already googled the plants but when I get to my garden they look completely the same.  The seedlings I mean, they're barely seedlings. I will post a pick soon. Again please help, this is my first time growing ghost peppers and I don't want to accidentally "ghost" one of my peppers D;  Help!
 
First off, Hello, and welcome to THP! You should go say hello in the welcome section.
 
Second, sounds like you've painted yourself into a corner. You may need to wait for the paint to dry.... or in this case, wait for the tomatillos to start growing in their first set of true leaves before you'll see a discernable difference. They'll still be small enough to cull at that point.
 
Wait for the true leaves, then start yanking seedlings with serrations on the leaves.
 
Good luck!
 
http://imgur.com/ATrJGGM
Like I said, tomatillo plants pepper my garden and were not intentionally grown there.  If you can spot a pepper plants in these pictures please let me know.
 
 
 
#1 http://imgur.com/rGkqpMg
 
#2 http://imgur.com/8MY3gWZ
 
I will wait for them to grow ridges though, but in case anyone knows...
I did not think that only tomatillo plants grew ridges, pepper plants don't?  Now that I think of it though I 
can't remember seeing ridges on any pepper plants.
 
Hello and welcome.Might just want to wait for them to grow a little more.
Hello and welcome.Might just want to wait for them to grow a little more.
 
If they are anything like my tomatillos they grow way faster than the peppers. They grow similar to tomato plants.
 
Not sure if this will help you but the tallest plant is a tomatillo and the rest are hot pepper plants.
 
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http://imgur.com/poVzlvB&rGjxrkw
 
Hey again, sorry for the lame pics but thats all I have.  I'm still not sure which ones might be pepper plants.  The other person who I'm sharing the garden said the pointy ones seemed to remind her of weeds or something.  I see her pepper plants and they look nothing like the pointy leafed ones that I see around the tomatillos.  Does anyone see any pepper plants in these pics?
 
Likeshotsauce said:
http://imgur.com/poVzlvB&rGjxrkw
 
Hey again, sorry for the lame pics but thats all I have.  I'm still not sure which ones might be pepper plants.  The other person who I'm sharing the garden said the pointy ones seemed to remind her of weeds or something.  I see her pepper plants and they look nothing like the pointy leafed ones that I see around the tomatillos.  Does anyone see any pepper plants in these pics?
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All I see in that pic are assorted weeds. Purslane, grass, and a couple of generic junk plants.
 
Well when an odd shaped yellow flower comes up there is your tomatillo  - I had volunteers that came back looking like weeds they grew so fast
 
Aye, yellow or purple flowers will likely be tomatillo, though some peppers (annuum?(sp)) can have purple in the flower. My tomatillos last year had purple flowers (purple tomatillos). 
 
Also, I cannot recall any peppers with serrated or even semi-serrated secondary leaves (second set on). So those are likely to not be peppers.
 
This is just my experience, no research done :)
 
GL!
 
This is not my picture, but this is how my tomatillo looked: I just google searched "tomatillo seedling" can do the same with searching "pepper seedling" if you desire.
 
Tomatillo-Plant.jpg
 
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